wheelie
Speech parts
1. wheelie - Noun
2. wheelie - Adjective
3. wheelie - Verb
Meaning
(informal) An action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels.
Synonyms: (Australia, Britain) mono, wheelstand
Jim fell off his bike when he was trying to do a wheelie.
(informal, chiefly Australia) A wheelchair user.
wheelie (third-person singular simple present wheelies, present participle wheelying or wheelieing, simple past and past participle wheelied)
(intransitive, informal) To ride, or perform the stunt of riding, a vehicle on its rear wheel or wheels.
Synonym: wheelstand
wheelie (comparative wheelier or more wheelie, superlative wheeliest or most wheelie)
(informal) Alternative spelling of wheely (“having wheels; mounted on wheels”).
wheelie bag wheelie bin
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Examples
A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder over the death of a young woman who was found in a wheelie bin in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
A colleague told me his whole family voted for Brexit because “the EU forced his dad to have a plastic wheelie bin rather than his beloved steel bin”.
In an effort to crack down on drag racers and wheelie freaks in Bengaluru city, the police have ordered action against the traffic rule violators.
I bought roller skates, a yo-yo, those wheelie shoes,” he continued.
But a few carrier bags worth of rubbish each month is a long way from the full wheelie bin I used to drag onto the pavement every fortnight.
He dragged her towards a wheelie bin, took out a bottle of bleach and poured its contents over her head, followed by a container of petrol.